MTA: A Conversation with Esmeralda Santiago and Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Esmeralda Santiago is the author of three acclaimed memoirs: When I was Puerto Rican, Almost a Woman, and The Turkish Lover and of the novels Américaâs Dream and Conquistadora. Buy Esmeraldaâs books […]
Meet the Author: Carmen V. Rivera & José E. Velázquez
April 22 to September 18, 2022
Meet the Author: Elisabet Velasquez
April 22 to September 18, 2022
MTA Recording: Natasha Diaz’s Color Me In
Meet the Author on Zoom with Natasha DÃaz on September 11, 2021. Color Me In is a powerful coming-of-age novel, pulled from personal experience, about the meaning of friendship, the […]
MTA Recording: Nomar Perezâs De aquà como el coquÃ
Nomar Perez discusses his author-illustrator debut! Coquà in the City / De aquà como el coquà is a heartfelt picture book based on the author-illustratorâs own experiences, about a boy […]
Meet the Author Collaboration with LITina Book Club
On September 24, 2021, we hosted our first in-person Meet the Author event of the year with LITina Book Club. LITinabookclub, established in 2020 by Erica Bernal, is a space […]
MTA Arlene Dávila: Latinx Art Talk
An inside and critical look of the global contemporary art market by writer, anthropologist and professor Arlene Dávila. In Latinx Art, Dávila draws on interviews with artists, dealers, and curators […]
Ricardo AlegrÃa: His Cultural Legacy – Talk
Watch the presentation by Carmen Dolores Hernández on Ricardo AlegrÃa, who widened our understanding of what it means to be Puerto Rican. His pioneering scholarship showed us the essential elements of Puerto Rican culture. In […]
ED Morales – LATINX Talk
Part social history, part political theory, part philosophical reflection, and part memoir, Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture is a book about Latino racial identity. Starting with the origins […]
A. K. Sandoval-Strausz’s Barrio America Talk
The talk took place on Saturday, March 13, 2021, @ 3:00 pm. A. K. Sandoval-Strausz discusses the themes of his latest book, Barrio America. Award-winning historian A.K. Sandoval-Strausz challenges the […]
Gente de Sal: Vida e Identidad Talk
On April 3rd at 3 PM as part of the Miskâi Kachi Runakuna Taller invited the archaeologist Ann Peters and Yolanda Carbajal Zuniga to discuss life in Cuzco, its history, […]
Meet the Author: Sabrina Vourvoulias
Watch the Sabrina Vourvaoulisa interview on her latest book, Nuestra América. Nuestra América highlights thirty inspiring Latina/o/xs throughout history and their extraordinary contributions to the cultural, social, and political character of […]
